The Other Face of the Moon - Claude Lévi-Strauss

The Other Face of the Moon

Buch | Hardcover
192 Seiten
2013
The Belknap Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-07292-3 (ISBN)
44,80 inkl. MwSt
Gathering all of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s writings on Japan, this sustained meditation follows his dictum that to understand one’s own culture, one must see it from another’s point of view. For Lévi-Strauss, Japan occupied a unique place among world cultures. This English translation presents one of France’s most public figures at his most personal.
Gathering for the first time all of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s writings on Japanese civilization, The Other Face of the Moon forms a sustained meditation into the French anthropologist’s dictum that to understand one’s own culture, one must regard it from the point of view of another.

Exposure to Japanese art was influential in Lévi-Strauss’s early intellectual growth, and between 1977 and 1988 he visited the country five times. The essays, lectures, and interviews of this volume, written between 1979 and 2001, are the product of these journeys. They investigate an astonishing range of subjects—among them Japan’s founding myths, Noh and Kabuki theater, the distinctiveness of the Japanese musical scale, the artisanship of Jomon pottery, and the relationship between Japanese graphic arts and cuisine. For Lévi-Strauss, Japan occupied a unique place among world cultures. Molded in the ancient past by Chinese influences, it had more recently incorporated much from Europe and the United States. But the substance of these borrowings was so carefully assimilated that Japanese culture never lost its specificity. As though viewed from the hidden side of the moon, Asia, Europe, and America all find, in Japan, images of themselves profoundly transformed.

As in Lévi-Strauss’s classic ethnography Tristes Tropiques, this new English translation presents the voice of one of France’s most public intellectuals at its most personal.

Claude Lévi-Strauss was chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France (1959–1982). Junzo Kawada is a cultural anthropologist in Japan.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 4.4.2013
Übersetzer Jane Marie Todd
Vorwort Junzo Kawada
Zusatzinfo 10 halftones
Verlagsort Cambridge, Mass.
Sprache englisch
Maße 111 x 181 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie Volkskunde
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-674-07292-8 / 0674072928
ISBN-13 978-0-674-07292-3 / 9780674072923
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